Don't let a Crash, Wreck your Locksmithing Business! | #Lockboss Show & Giveaway
hey everybody how is it going welcome back to another hashtag lockboss show and giveaway we have a good storyline um in a good storyline for you today as well as of course we're going to be announcing this week's five lock boss winners so this gentleman sitting to my right is chris chris how are you doing i'm doing great man it's always a pleasure i'm just happy to be here yeah absolutely right so um for those of you who do not know um if you're new this is chris he is the owner uh well just go and tell him the couple businesses so i have a uh local locksmith business uh river city locksmith located up here in pacific northwest and i also have a uh fundamentally locksmith derived apparel um novelty everything about locksmithing that's called lockjaw lockjaw manufacturing and uh you know both of them keep me very busy so you know these bags did not develop overnight it took a while to get there underneath the eyes and i'm very happy to do it very good good stuff so now someone didn't want to check out though your lock jaw stuff um where would they go so uh you can find us on instagram uh obviously if the name is gonna be lockjaw mfg or you can visit online at www.thelockjawmfg.com there we go here we have to get a little lockjaw shelling in all right yeah i mean i don't do it for everybody but i'll do it for you all right but um yeah so everybody of course no we're drinking tapo chico cheers and um i'll tell you what we have uh quite the story for you tonight so without further ado let's go and get going all right so let's go to the post of the week here all right this one is sent in from upgrade guy locks looks like he uh sent um this is uh his order he actually got and he says he we blew um him away with our speed well hey we definitely try to get every order out that um gets uh placed before 3 p.m but it looks like probably fedex um did their magic on that but thank you for sending it in really do appreciate that let's see what we got next here all right next we got from edward m so looks like edward m um signed up and became a mx 13 dealer and looks like that's one of his orders there you can see the lock boss hat in the background we got a couple boxes of keys and a bunch of cylinders and uh a big bro the mat underneath there that's good stuff that's good stuff well mx is good stuff man that stuff's really nice it is it's a great alternative to having like a medical system you can use your schlage pins yeah you know it's super easy to work with it is you know something i need to check we finally got uh schleg blue punches back in stock and i've been meaning to uh it's been hard to uh for me to check and see if you can actually punch our mx13 with that blue punch i've heard people say yes and some people say no they've also had similar issues like with certain promises and everest keys uh some people have originated on the on the sc punch and then they'll transfer to a cutting machine and put it on there for mx so i guess so it depends how you know how hard you want to try yeah well i think you know each since each mx keyway is different like my theory is that when we put one in some are either going to sit right right and some aren't that's true and so i'm gonna i need to find out i'm going to find out and it looks like we got who is that uh lock mechanic says mx13 sounds like a cartel kind of is i mean you're in for life right yeah pretty much yeah you use money in there and you're stuck with it yep exactly but edward hey thanks for sending that picture and that's very cool definitely welcome and here coming up soon we're gonna have something special for all of our mx13 dealers so um stay tuned for that all right comment of the week let's see what we're cooking with here all right excuse me for leaning in here so i can read it but it says uh uh pouncerman said great vids as always i have a question maybe you can make a video on it when you program in a key to a car does it get locked meaning you can't reprogram the key can you reprogram it to the same car some transponders get locked or unlocked and i'm not too clear what that means per se you know that is an absolutely great question and um kind of like when i would ask one of my ex-girlfriends in high school like if we were going to stay together and yeah she pretty much said it's complicated not well right but uh you know um it's complicated and what i mean by that is um you know i talk a lot about and chris feel free to chime in here you know i talk a lot about how stuff can be like more true than untrue and this is one of those cases where some depending on the vehicle some can be redone to a completely different vehicle they can they're reusable some manufacturers are reliably going to allow for that like if you take your uh your h92s i can take it from a 2005 to a 2015. no problem yeah then there's some manufacturers that will not allow that if it's a prox if it's a push start so who made it you got your super chips there's a million ways it can go so yes the answer i guess is maybe you know maybe you know and that might be kind of a fun video to kind of like i've done all the different you know transponder videos but it might be fun just to like that's a lot of research to get all those and piece of information down yeah it might turn into a pdf yeah you know because some of them it's like well yes if if you bought it from this manufactured oem will yes and aftermarket won't which aftermarket won't do this is that this kind of board yeah i mean yeah i mean now that you're yeah i mean it's one of those it's like a rabbit hole where it's like okay how can we take enough information out to be accurate but yet also realizing that you have to leave some parts out which is why a lot of times in the videos when i do a transponder key i don't mention it okay yeah that's that's probably better than sorry and the reason i don't is because it depends and so yeah it's never like a car has ever had a problem programming a key it so there's some cars that you know are going to be no problem you get some cars like i did a 99 uh f was a mustang or a 99 ranger one of those very few older fords actually required it there's always a problem with those older vehicles and not to say the keys may not work with another version of it it just it goes back and forth there's just really no solid answer there really is yes and depending on your technical um expertise and equipment you can unlock them yes you can there are chips that can't or there are is it cloneable if it's clonable yes you can move to different keys yes right there's a thousand ways to do it there is right and so um yeah so i hope that kind of helps i know it's probably not the answer you're looking for but that's kind of the reason why like my ex-girlfriends used to say it's complicated yeah right the only difference is you still have a chance to do it i did it right now i'm just playing it obviously haven't gone over it's okay yeah it's okay you know many years ago but you know it's my wife's wacky she's like what are you talking about man right but that's what makes it fun that's not linked to mine i'm kind of regretting that now so yeah all right so um all right so chris it's time to kind of get into a fun story here for a few minutes so every time yeah yeah so now did you like the title i came up i did i did i liked it i saw that on instagram see i was like that's spot on yeah it took me a while to come up with something fun you know but um the title was if you get into a crash don't let it wreck your business obviously as a dad and you as a dad we can thoroughly enjoy puns that's just it's inherited a certain point it is it really is so you got into a accident and do you want to tell the story first or do you want to show the pictures first i was going to show the pictures first because pictures are worth a thousand words they are okay so let me get this pulled up here and i'm going to go through and we'll show you the pictures and then you'll hear the story so chris this is the vehicle that's the vehicle that hit me there's a 2014 chevy sonic and if you're familiar with a chevy sonic it's about 99 plastic so don't think that this uh vehicle received a lot of damage it just pretty much crumpled like it was supposed to and no one was hurt except for me probably time will tell that's what chiropractors before but at the same time um yeah that was the driver's vehicle they ran a red light they were probably on their cell phone who am i to decide um and yeah i feel bad because that is obviously what they have to you know try and get home with now yeah as uh locked mechanic says just just put some dirt on and it'll buff out oh yeah easy right you know when you sent me these pictures i mean i was like this one like you sent them to me like immediately this one came to my eyes this is a very uh deceiving picture it really is and the next one and like sincerely i was like i kind of stopped and i was like okay chris is sending these to me or something he must be okay you know what i mean like right because when you look at that picture it's like oh my gosh something bad happened yeah well someone did just not for me yes um so is the other person okay yeah the other person was fine air bags went off obviously you know they got out everything everyone it was a pretty slow area i think 30 35 is what they're doing but everyone everyone lived okay cool that's good next up the white gorilla there this is so you would think that that's a horrible piece of damage and it there's a lot more to the surface but luckily i caught them out of the corner of my eye as i was going through my intersection on my green light and they were kind of blowing through the red light i caught them on the corner of my eye and i hit the gas because if i didn't that would have been the side right there by the driver's door so they essentially turned my rear axle into a giant spring and it just kind of spun me through the intersection like a pinball so i was able to drive home albeit not at the same speed i would normally liked um but i did limp at home and that kind of goes to tell you the difference between a full service you know e250 versus a plastic hatchback car um one of them is going to walk away and obviously it wasn't them so here let me toggle between these here for a second because when you see this okay yeah you're not expecting to see that my insurance adjuster did not believe me when i called them i said look here's i call the next morning here's the situation here's the pictures um and they said okay but what part of the car got hit i was like this is the part that got hit they said no no we need to see the part they got struck by the like this is it this is what happened so it was a little bit unbelievable but there's there's definitely some some transition with the rear axle and i need to break lines and there's definitely stuff needs to be done that's not on the surface there you're not going to see yeah i mean i kind of view this picture as like you know someone like they'll get like um they'll get into an accident though like that steering will hit them and they look fine from the outside like maybe a little but they have internal bleeding going on right and that kind of seems like that's what's happening to your van here kind of right did i send you the inside pictures yes i got this coming so i saw let's just toggle one more time okay because it's so unbelievable night and day there's the vehicle that hit him the the person driving is okay that's what it that's the damage it left that's crazy i love that that's why the vanilla gorilla it is it just took that hit and it just kept moving yeah that is unbelievable i mean from this picture it looks like a tank yeah that's what it felt like i mean it's a tank so let's look at the inside now here we go all right look at these two pictures here so as you can see you got shaked yeah and it tossed the interior of my band like a salad to it luckily you know all my equipment was there to absorb the the impact so that's good yes so that it definitely took me about two days to kind of get everything cleaned up took a million pictures for insurance i had some equipment they got you see my lovely schleich punch right there on the ground right there on its side i know it's so sad looking isn't it and it still works though because hey it's a solid piece as in a bet i was like man that thing i mean like i mean you could use that as like uh the base of a jack to jack your truck up and it'd still work you know maybe a good video that would actually but yeah that uh wow it probably hurts a few locksmiths out there to see this video you know these pictures all right we're back there we go um yeah that see that stuff i mean everything's got time turned over i lost a few bends up on the top over there yeah and if you've ever been in a vehicle full of small metal keyblanks gets hit they were all over the floor i was finding boxes overturned a 250 kw one pack on the ground just dumped upside down um i'm still trying to figure out there's any major damage to anything but um i think i will recover as far as the equipment applies yeah okay so someone asked uh where'd i see that oh b strickler says um did the pinning kit explode everywhere no the pinning kit did not because i was smart and i actually bolted it down to a tool chest which is bolted down to the cabinets which is bolted down to the frame so the pinning kit received no damage at all and you had it latched i'm guessing oh yeah yeah it takes you one time to make that mistake you never do it again that is the truth isn't it yes that is the truth man that um wow yeah it was a little hectic the next day i was very adamant about you know taking inventory seeing what was broken my oh actually the one thing i think the only actual uh major equipment that is going to probably take a while to get back is i have a kronos epg electric pick gun it comes from germany and so you can't just get it overnighted so that's the one thing to stop working so that's really i think the main thing that is gonna probably need to be replaced okay okay so let's um you know that's crazy chris first of all thanks for coming on and talking about this and sharing those pictures because this video if you have any sort of mobile business right which essentially every locksmithing business whether you're a drywall or a painter like a christian plumber whatever yeah this really brings us to a really um sobering point here okay and that is when this happens you at least temporarily don't have a lock fan yeah if you are a if you're a strictly mobile person like i am you can't just say hey come to the shop that's just not gonna happen because there's no shop but it's important to know a couple terms if this has all been very eye-opening for me because i'm i'm unfortunately a good driver i don't have any speeding tickets in like 20 years nothing have nothing on my record so when i'm going through the process doing insurance and obviously it was you know i wasn't at fault for anything it's there's a lot of doors opened up for you including the most important one which is loss of use so if you get into an accident and you are hey my toyota cola i can't use it because it's going to be in the shop right now they'll always give you another toyota corolla you cannot rent a fully stocked and serviceable lots of van because insurance company or a rental company is not going to say yeah go and take our you know 2022 van and gut it run the wiring put cabinets put benches and stuff they don't want that so loss of use is a term of finding out that insurance will pretty much have to take care of my business until i'm back on the road which is good and bad because i got stuff i can take care of your home but the same time you don't want to tell your important clients hey sorry i can't help you because partron back order body shop's on you know a delay right now so you're looking at about two to three months which sucks but at the same time it's beginning of summer so take some vacations i don't take it easy yeah okay so can i can we unpack this a little bit absolutely okay so you with through your insurance now of course this is not financial advice okay so go ahead and contact your uh existing or different insurance agent whatever that might be so on your policy you had this so the opposite person's policy will have to cover everything because it's their fault right yes so one of the things you can request is a loss of use meaning that they'll take your taxes from the last several years divided by 365 and that's what they pay you every single day until your business is back up so is what i'm hearing is that because you had this piece of insurance in place um no did you intentionally sign up for this or did you just kind of hit the jackpot when you got your insurance it so if you have a business vehicle set up because you have commercial vehicles and you have a commercial policy so a commercial vehicle is going to be gvrw over what sixteen thousand pounds or something like that so that's gonna be like your freightliners your big rigs um and then you have a commercial vehicle you can take a toilet matrix hatchback and make it a commercial vehicle if it's being used in a commercial setting so if you have a vehicle that's in a commercial setting it has commercial um indemnities that come with that and one of those is being able to say hey this vehicle is a money producing vehicle i'm not using it to go to my office and come back every day so now it qualifies the loss of use falls under a commercial it's like if someone would blow up your building for your business that's essentially what happened yes and so um i think the biggest point i'm hearing is hey for all of you out there who are using a vehicle for doing your work your locksmithing work i know it's cheaper to get insurance as just a person because commercial insurance is more however this is a great example of why you haven't yes if you would have done that it would be a lot different it would have probably still worked out but it would have been a lot more hoops to jump through would have to prove it's a business vehicle and if you've ever dealt with insurance companies they are very quick to take your payment but at the same time you wait in two weeks for a call back on you know when is this gonna happen who's this gonna be doing with this yeah who's the person i have to call to deal with this yeah so it's really important for all you out there make sure you have this coverage and make sure that if you're using your vehicle for commercial work that you're getting it insured as a commercial vehicle yes i think that's a big nugget takeaway here that is a huge that's the whole reason i'm here today to tell everyone out there get commercial insurance for vehicle or review your policy with whoever you have for insurance and have a backup plan if you have a secondary vehicle great you can do that if you do not have those qualifying factors for insurance ask why not because if you are a mobile only locksmith and you have have a situation like this you want to know that you're going to be taken care of so if you don't mind just okay so i really appreciate you talking about that i want to kind of dive into this a little more if you don't mind so you know we didn't prep these questions so if i say something you don't want to answer um i'll just give them a walk out yep yeah yep or dump your top paco on me and whatever you know so right now while your van is getting fixed like how long are you out of a van so right now they're estimating they'll start the work about mid-june and they take about four weeks for the repairs and that's not including what they find on the mechanical side of it that's just the body work so when they get up underneath it they say oh you know what that differential is blue the the pumpkin on the on the back of your axle is blown up uh you need to have a new uh new rear axle you know the other alignments so i'm expecting about six weeks once in the shop um but in the meantime i did start out once upon a time in a truck that's you know that was ten years ago almost so now i'm back in my truck the same truck uh my dodge dakota just kind of taking care of my main accounts and some people might say well you should just take the time off and relax you have a counselor depending on you property management companies um you know banks all these other facilities it's easy to go re-key and work on locks when you already know what the keys are gonna be if you're switching from a wr5 that did from wr5 it's easy enough to do yeah it's the the random stuff that cold call customers that say i need 10 locks re-key none of the keys match that could be anything i could be going making trips back and forth and you can only fit so much in the back seat of a truck right now so right now it's very much just prioritizing my important accounts and the cold call stuff just kind of waiting on the sides right now so the cool part is is that of course you know you spent all of this time energy effort you have a reputation in your community right and you of course want to keep all of that right that the best you can well imagine if someone asked you say hey uh hey pg i need uh i need 150 se1s oh you know what i'm not shipping right now call me in six months from now they're not going to wait six months they need to take care of a lot sooner than that very true so they're going to prime up going somewhere else for that yeah that's why it's important to make sure i take care of those important accounts that you know i've had working relationships with for years yeah they know me i know them i'm there once or twice a week it's still important and they and one of the things i did is when this all happened i got a hold of all these different um you know accounts that i have and say hey here's a situation if you have anything that's going to be exceeding basics i need some advanced notice that way i can make sure i have the right products and materials for this so there's no surprises the less surprises the easier it is for me to handle it right now yeah you know that's good so in the meantime you're also getting paid by the insurance company so you went from a situ like tell me if i'm wrong here okay but you went from a situation that could be really bad correct okay and really by all accounts it could be a death blow to your business yeah absolutely to no fault of your own right right to no fault of your own you didn't do anything wrong yet you could be in a situation where all of your hard work is in jeopardy over the course of 90 days you could lose it all if you didn't set up correctly correct right but instead of that you figured out a way to keep your customer base happy you can keep serving them is it a little less convenient for you absolutely oh yeah you spend so much time in a van that's almost like your second home you have everything you like the way it's set up you have your equipment except the way it is your key machines everything and then you go from that to i have about a 90 reduction available services that changes things it does and so but instead you're doing all right oh yeah you know probably there's a probably of a uh part of you that's like you know it's kind of nice it's kind of like being paid to go on vacation when you didn't want to go but still having to work a little bit at the same time it's really weird there's some silver linings because like i said someone's coming up the kids are going to school the weather is nice it's nice time to spend more time with them um i mentioned a couple months ago as we do in my sighting and i want one of the projects i'm working on so now i have an opportunity to work on some smaller stuff at home get caught up i got an old truck i'm restoring so it's there's more stuff to do than i thought i was gonna need to do but at the same time i'm kind of being pushed into like take some offer work you know deal also i'm not sure what's even happened with um i got i got bulging discs from it now and there's just things like time will tell how it's all going to play out but for now i just got just kind of keeping mellow just don't worry too crazy yep it's holding my main accounts that's great everyone's happy so far so that's great well chris thank you for coming on and talking about it oh yeah i think this could be so beneficial especially for um anybody who's watching or listening to this um at some point that is not that does not have that correct insurance we can always talk about is how you kind of keys i do this but the business aspects of it but these are also very important things because when your business gets pretty much knocked out of the water and you have no control over how it happened when it happened when it's going to be corrected you have to make sure you have all your all your uh all your cards are on in the right places yeah because you have to have a contingency plan for this kind of stuff absolutely well it's great you did um and i'm glad you're doing good and you're okay you know i'm in good spirits i'm you know i've been working a lot less obviously which is good for the stress values so that's good too you know yeah especially you know when you're you know the type of operation you have i mean you have to grind it out right you have to go through at least seasons of grinding it out so this might actually be an opportunity for you to um like reset a little bit a little bit like i get more time to work on lockjaw and i guess more chances to you know market with that and work on new designs and so it's really cool that i'm not i'm not stopping my work i'm just changing my workload yeah that's great good stuff well man i'm really happy to be talking about this so uh well not you're the bad situation but the good part of it of course but uh perfect wait um let's go ahead and let's move on to this week's five lucky winners now chris actually brought you guys some presents here you're going to be getting so chris you want to take a few minutes and tell us about oh yeah so we got a couple new designs here um the grand prize winner here for says and gets something very special this is our very awesome very big this is our warlock sticker has all the different lock picks and keys nothing on it so this will go under your uh your pen kit so this thing right here one of you guys will be taking this home it's it's the size of a hand pretty much it's a big boy it's a very big one we also got some really cool super new these are our little super locksmith guys that may look familiar to some of you people some of you may not know what that is but also last but not least we also got some of our it might be hard to see the lighting this is our safe cracking sticker it's kind of hard to see that with the uh the camera there but you can also see all these online lockdown fg.com we are super stoked to have these products out here there's something unique and special to the locksmith industry i think we've been waiting for something really cool to come along for a long time so we're very proud of them our team is super stoked to have these out that's very cool so yeah guys hey make sure you guys check chris out support him um he has some great stuff coming out he's doing good work with it and they're really cool designs man i like that super this is my old guy yeah man that's cool that is real yeah a couple more goodies in the pipeline you know and it's uh you gotta wait for shipping sometimes some of the stuff comes across the country across the world and you have to kind of wait for it absolutely yeah yeah that goes yep i sure do all right well good stuff everybody so um all the lucky winners are gonna be receiving some of this a sticker as well so how cool is that all right let's go ahead and get into it all right let's first go over the rules make sure we're all on the same page here so what to do if you win you want to email us your shipping info to sales clksupplies.com or call us at 800-848-6989 and we'll send your gifts
soon how to win comment on our videos and include the hashtag lockboss winners will be chosen from the previous week's videos it's that simple no purchase necessary but we do thank all of you who support us no print is necessary yep no none nice none up okay here let's do it i was like is there another slide there what are we doing all right here we go so this week's winner is number one robert freer robert congratulations here we go winner number two is kenneth johnson congratulations winner number three g lock access if i'm saying that right you think that's probably right or block access i think you didn't order it's pretty good okay yeah fair enough good stuff all right winner number four is ej walsh ej congratulations and last but not least winner number five this week is timothy kimberling ii so timothy congratulations now of course this month we got our a lock boss premier uh polo going on free for any order over 432.10 so there you have it hey i do see your comment nate um go ahead and contact us at sales clksupplies.com and we can make sure we have everything uh figured out for you or worst case or best case we'll give you a tracking number um we'll make sure we get that figured out for you no problem at all well everybody thank you for coming hanging out chris thanks for telling your story always a pleasure glad you're doing good and um everybody you all have a great tuesday evening and we'll see you same place same time next week y'all take care
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